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Preparing for the Savage Gods, October 6, 2021, Introduction.

The reason the Apostle John tells the members of a faithful Christian church to, quote, unquote,

keep yourselves from idols is that he knew that there would be times when they did not

want to keep themselves from idols.

There would be times he knew when making some kind of room for an idol would seem like

the most natural thing to do.

There are, of course, grotesque forms of idolatry, but there are also the first stirrings

of idolatry that can seem quite respectable, even to Christians.

In fact, it can seem disreputable not to make room for that kind of idol.

These are the stirrings that Christians need to be especially wary of, because the end

of that road is in accommodation with the more monstrous forms of idolatry.

I believe that Hemingway has aligned somewhere about how someone went bankrupt, how it

happened to him in two stages.

First it was gradually, and then it was suddenly.

It has been that way with evangelicals and idolatries.

First it was gradually, and then it was suddenly.

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